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Theatrical Reason In Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes uses his famous reasoning abilities to read a woman in order to solve a problem. After all, according to Holmes a woman’s emotions always give her away, making it easy for him to find Irene Adler’s hidden photograph. The apparently rational assumptions about…

Fay Weldon, who began her career in writing as an advertising copywriter in the 1960s, appropriates the use of food and cooking in most of her literary work; her preference in writing of women-centered stories stereotypically matches the domestic activity.  However, Weldon’s work is not simply a celebration of gastronomical creations and the common positive…

Romeo and Juliet is an extremely well-known play written by William Shakespeare in the late 1 sass. It is a story about an ancient rivalry between two wealthy families which is defied by two teenage star-crossed lovers who tragically die. The play was set in the Elizabethan era in Verona Italy. Despite that the play…

The Scarlet Letter Pearls have always held a great price to mankind, but no pearl has ever been earned at as high a cost to a person as Nathaniel Hawthorn’s powerful heroine Hester Prone. Her daughter Pearl, born into a Puritan prison in more ways than one, is an enigmatic character serving entirely as a…

Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood shows us unique aspects about the women who live in Gilead, the two different types of women in which Atwood mentions are unique, which are the Handmaids and the Martha’s. These two different groups of women are not allowed to read because Gilead imposes a illiteracy on the female…

In the Lord of the Flies and in the Stanford Prison Experiment, it shows how the thirst for power corrupts people. According to the psychologist, Scott Barry Kaufman, power isn’t inherently good or evil, rather it’s the person who makes it evil. In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding is arguing the same thing…

In The Odyssey and Beowulf, my opinion is that in both epics the two main heroes share some similar components of characteristics and different components of character traits. The stories also reflected on the importance of their cultures and how this shaped the heroes. In The Odyssey, the historical context of this epic is about…

Star Wars, a low budget science-fiction film, has achieved blockbuster success at the box office. It has garnered immense popularity across various cultures and age groups for numerous decades. In addition to its popularity, Star Wars effectively communicates several significant themes, with the classic hero journey being one of the most prominent throughout the movie….

This book was written by Booker T Washington. He was born in Hale’s Ford, Virginia, he’s not too sure what day he was born but he likes to think that was on April 5 of 1856. The purpose of this book is not only telling Booker T Washington life, but he also wrote this book…

Naturalist writers examine the idea that free will holds no importance, humans are on par with animals, and nature can be both hostile and indifferent. These themes are apparent in Jack London’s narrative, “To Build a Fire,” which emphasizes nature’s antagonistic demeanor. Despite the protagonist’s foolish choices, nature did not provide any assistance throughout his…